Fresh Green Peas Soup

Fresh Green Peas is a winter special vegetable and is a choice for all including children. It tastes little sweet when it is fresh. Green Peas can be cooked as combo or solo like soups, curries, stir fries, fried rice, or with vegetables. During winter, I always use fresh green peas and during off [...]

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Palakkai (Baby Jackfruit) Podimas

Baby jackfruit tastes nice when cooked with spices. Tender or young or baby jackfruit is called as Palakkai in Tamil and as Katahal in Hindi.
Here I have prepared Palakkai (Baby Jackfruit) Podimas. It is a simple dish to prepare. With all freshly added spices this tastes different and nice. Cleaning and cutting baby jackfruit [...]

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Palak with Toor Dal (Red Gram)

Palak, a type spinach is available in the market most of the times. Any dish with palak tastes nice. I use palak to prepare Palak Paneer, Aloo Palak, Palak Burji, Soup. Red gram is also known as Pigeon Pea. It is called as Tuvaram Paruppu in Tamil and as Toor Dal in Hindi. This [...]

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Puli (Tamarind) Upma

Puli Upma is made out of rice flour and tamarind water. This simple upma tastes different from other upmas and I love this very much. Very few ingredients are required to prepare this upma.
Tamarind is Puli in Tamil and Imli in Hindi.
Serves: 6
Cooking time: 20 minutes approximately
Ingredients

Rice flour – 3 cup
Turmeric powder – ½ [...]

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Snake Gourd (Pudalankai) and Bengal Gram Kootu

Snake Gourd (Pudalankai in Tamil) is a commonly available vegetable. Pudalankai Kootu is simple to prepare and goes well with Rice, Chappati, Bread.
Serves: 6
Cooking time: 40 minutes
Ingredients

Snake guard (Pudalankai) – 500 gram
Bengal gram – 1 cup
Tomato – 1 no
Onion – 1 no
Garlic – 4 pods
Turmeric powder – ¼ tea spoon
Cooking oil – 1 [...]

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Gobi (Cauliflower Stuffed) Paratha

Gobi Paratha is a popular dish of north India. Big fresh Cauliflowers are available in plenty during winter. Cauliflower is called Phool Gobi in Hindi (not to get confused with Cabbage, that is called Bandh Gobi in Hindi).
Gobi Paratha is very good for breakfast or as Brunch on holidays. No other side dish is [...]

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Mullangi Keerai (Radish Greens) Poriyal

Radish is known as Mullangi in Tamil and its greens are known as Mullangi Keerai. In Hindi radish is known as Mooli and greens as Mooli ke Patte. When radish is very small it is harvested for its greens. This is mostly available during winter season along with other fresh leafy vegetables. The greens [...]

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Mulai Keerai Poondu Masiyal (Spinach Puree with Garlic)

Amaranth (Mulai Keerai in Tamil), a leafy vegetable is available throughout the year in Tamil Nadu. Mulai Keerai cooked in mashed (Masiyal in Tamil) form is very popular in south India.
Here is a simple Mulai Keerai Poondu Masiyal. In this garlic (Poondu in Tamil) is added for flavor either during the seasoning or in [...]

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Make Kofta with Gulab Jamun Mix

For New Year I bought two packets of ready to cook gulab jamun mix. I used one and the other was lying in the kitchen. As no one was interested in having sweet again, I thought of trying out something different with gulab jamun mix.
Here is kofta using gulab jamun mix. It came out [...]

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Cabbage Carrot Capsicum Poriyal

Sometimes I try out Poriyal by mixing two or three types of vegetables. Dishes prepared with mixed vegetables are healthy.
Here I have prepared a tri-colour Cabbage Carrot Capsicum Poriyal with mild spices.
Ingredients

Cabbage – 250 gm
Capsicum big – 1 no
Carrot – 2 no
Green chili – 2 no
Onion – 1 no
Salt – as per taste
For dry [...]

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